Overclocking a P4 1.5ghz

deadaim · Guru Joined: 27 Oct 2003 Posts: 467 Location: Florida

Okay, I've never overclocked a computer before. First, I need to know whether overclocking a P4 1.5ghz is even possible. If it is, is it recommended? How much of an improvement can I expect it to have. I plan to have Gentoo on it.

Let's say that it is overclockable and recommended. How would I overclock it? I have absolutely no clue on how to go about this. An internet document/tutorial or explanation would be very appreciated. Thanks.

ewan.paton · Posted: Fri Dec 19, 2003 2:10 pm Post subject:

overclocking is done in bios by changeing the clock frequences, p4's run pretty hot and gentoo can hardwork for hardware there are plenty of websites kicking about but presonally i woulnt bother, if you are just trying to speedup compile times it will probably melt on you and after christmas youll probably see a bunch of 2.4ghz on ebay cheep they are already about £85 and i hear they are clockable to 3ghz
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neilhwatson · l33t Joined: 06 Feb 2003 Posts: 719 Location: Canada

Today's CPUs are so fast I don't believe that overclocking is worth the risk. These days the real bottleneck of a PC is the hard drive.

Still, if you wish to learn about overclocking then I would suggest a google search on overclocking.
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scriptkiddie · l33t Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 955

I have a P4 Dell that is a 1.5ghz machine and overclocking is not worth your while... I got very slight improvements in compiling (maybe 1-2 minutes difference) and my benchmark tests were almost the exact same.